Resources and Information for New Growers
These are some online resources that can be helpful for new farmers or for farmers considering new crops or enterprises:
Crop Selection Tools
- A Market-Driven Enterprise Screening Guide This guide provides a structured format based on a series of questions to help farmers assess the potential of new enterprises.
- A guide to screening market driven enterprises (Presentation slides)
- Profitseeker: Crop/Enterprise Screening Guide (Presentation slides)
- UC Davis Cost and Return Studies
- UC Urban Agriculture
- The California Backyard Orchard
- UC Vegetable Research and Information Center
- UC Fruit and Nut Research and Information
New Farmer Education Programs/Internships
- UC Santa Cruz Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems (CASFC)
- UCCE Foothill Farming
- Archi’s Acres
- San Diego City College’s Seed@City Urban Farm
- Victory Gardens San Diego
- Coastal Roots Farm